[Multiplatform] Bioshock. Available on Wii 12/5/2010

Originally Posted by Iwata

I'm going for the 360 version. Plus, nowadays i'm more of a fan of the controller layout for FP based games then the keyboard/mouse combo and I think the controller just feels far more natural then the WASD/mouse combo nowadays, IMO.

Well, it's pretty likely that you'd be able to use the Xbox 360 controller on the PC version as well, so either way you'd be able to play it with that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

My local Gamestop had a whole drawer (or more) of Bioshock LEs when I checked today. It looks rather cool really, and the Big Daddy figurine is surprisingly large (sure blows the crap out of the RA2/Prey CE pewter figurines). I think the extra $10 is justified, even if the soundtrack CD sucks. I'm wondering about the durability of that figurine though given the feedback some people are giving...

Originally Posted by Grail

Oy....I think Forsety has it here...mine isn't a duel core processor ;____; I'm quite sad at this...I think mine's only an AMD Athlon 2600...no duel core

Technically there's no game that flat-out won't run if you have a slower CPU, but obviously the slower the CPU the worse the game will run. I'm actually not sure what the performance in Bioshock will be like with that CPU...the game *seems* to put a larger strain on the GPU than the CPU, but I haven't seen any official benchmarks for it yet. In any case, I'd say give the demo a try regardless and see how well it runs. I played Deus Ex on a 200mhz computer, so Bioshock on a 2600+ isn't too far-fetched. Oh and just ignore raw ghz ratings, a 2600+ is supposed to run *as well as* a 2.6ghz processor even if it only actually runs at 1.9ghz (unless they were specifically referencing AMD processor speeds with that). What are your other specs though? I thought the game required a DX9c compatible videocard (i.e. Nvidia 6x00/ATI 1x00 or better)

Oh, and is that Athlon 2600 a 939 pin by chance? If so, you can upgrade to a dual core for pretty cheap now: Newegg.com has x2 3800+ 939 pin dual cores for under $70 last I checked, and often you can get a pretty big performance boost on those if you're willing/capable of overclocking them (I got mine running stable at 2.7ghz without any extra cooling amazingly).

How ya doing, buddy?

Physics will be almost entirely handled by the CPU at this point, that's something a faster videocard won't really help with yet since almost all current physics engines are entirely CPU based. Shadows usually impose a hit to the CPU, but are balanced a bit more evenly between a CPU and a GPU. Particles mostly are GPU based though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Peers: 7 seeders, 357 leechers

Yeah, that's not going to be going very fast. The torrent on The Pirate Bay is even worse:

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9 seeders
1275 leechers

Almost wonder if it would be faster waiting and just getting it tomorrow...

Edit: whoa, one of the comments links to a thread that shows how to upgrade to premium Fileplanet membership for free, awesome

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Originally Posted by Grail

Well, I have both good news and bad news for anyone wanting to run this game with less than 2 ghz processing power, 1.5 gigs of ram, and a 6800 Nvidia GS video card.

The good news is, at the lowest settings possible the game runs, and even though it's all at a low setting, it still looks really, really good.

The bad news: Up until the fighting begins, there are no problems at all, but as soon as the fighting starts, my colors started to flicker, and my game would start locking up for periods of time.

Have you updated your drivers? I thought I heard both ATI and Nvidia were releasing drivers today that were specially optimized for Bioshock.

Originally Posted by Free.User

As a side note, thanks to the FilePlanet trick (thanks Solis) I can now participate in the Quake Wars Beta!

That's the first thought I had when I got the Fileplanet subscription, was considering making a Quake Wars GFF group in the multiplayer arena now that we should be able to get some people playing the beta

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hmm, the fileplanet premium trick doesn't seem to work anymore, it just says to enter your info and doesn't upgrade your account like it used to. Ah well, was nice while it lasted. If I make that Quake Wars GFF thread, we might be able to scrounge up a few extra CD keys for members that didn't get in on the fileplanet exploit.

Oh and on the topic of Bioshock, make sure to download the new (beta) drivers if you have an Nvidia card (or here if you have Vista). They're supposed to help in performance in Bioshock.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Slayer X

Oh what's this???

http://gamerankings.com/itemrankings...asp?rankings=y

BioShock = 4th highest ratedd game of alltime.

HOO RA!!!

Ratings usually drop quite a bit when a larger amount of reviews come in for a game. Happened to both Twilight Princess and Halo 2: at one point each had taken the #1 spot (with the required amount of reviews to be on the chart), now both of them got bumped so far down they aren't even in the top 10 anymore. We'll see if Bioshock stays around there after it goes above 60 or 70 reviews.

Oh, and I recently tried using an Xbox 360 controller with the game (still on the demo though), and was surprised at how nice it felt. I kinda liked how left trigger was assigned to shooting plasmids instead of being a swap button like the right button is for a mouse by default. The aiming and movement felt unexpectedly fluid as well, and the RB/LB for selection weapons/plasmids was fairly efficient (I'm used to the radial menu from the Ratchet and Clank games anyway). I'm debating whether I should play this one on the PC monitor with a Keyboard/Mouse or on my HDTV from the couch with an Xbox 360 controller (although I hope they'll give FOV options by then).

How ya doing, buddy?

He's referring to this:

http://www.gamingbob.com/2007/08/23/...ncluding-demo/

Basically it's some kind of program that installs itself within a hidden folder into the lowest layer of Windows and blocks attempts to delete the registry key that activates it.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?